Isaac Okoh: Commonwealth Games gold medallist begins European Championship marketing campaign | ‘I can beat anybody on the planet’ | Boxing Information

GB heavyweight Isaac Okoh is on a roll.

After underwhelming on the World Championships a 12 months in the past, Okoh has been on a unbelievable profitable run which culminated in a Commonwealth Games gold medal in Glasgow.

He now desires to maintain the momentum rolling into the European Championships, that are underneath approach in Sofia.

Okoh has his first bout in Bulgaria on Sunday towards Poland’s Alexey Sevostyanov.

“I’m confident I can beat anyone in the world at the minute. It’s going to take a really good fighter to beat me,” Okoh informed Sky Sports.

“There’s quite a lot of nice opponents on the weight. I really feel like I’m up there and I’m in actual competition for a gold medal.

“I’m well up for it and I fancy my chances against anyone at this tournament.”

His victory in Glasgow has buoyed that confidence. “It’s a dream come true, When you first start boxing the Commonwealth Games is one of the tournaments you dream of going to and then obviously to bring home the gold medal not too far away from home with friends and family there, it’s a proud moment,” Okoh stated.

“It fills you with confidence going on into the future, Olympic qualifiers round the corner and the Olympics two years away.

“Since the World championships I’ve been boxing brilliantly. I knew I needed to… I’ve been flying.”

Britain has a robust crew at these European championships.

“We’ve got a great squad. We had a brilliant medal tally coming back from the Commonwealths, one of the best in a long time. We’ve got a great squad at the minute, lots of talent, very young, fresh, hungry. So the mood’s brilliant in camp and morale’s through the roof,” Okoh stated.

“It’s a great team and a great group of people to be around.”

Strong begin for White

Although Sacha Hickey suffered a shock loss to Croatia’s Sara Beram, fellow Commonwealth Games medallist Ruby White bought off to a robust begin.

After dropping within the flyweight ultimate in Glasgow, White returned to motion on Saturday and dominated Serbia’s Nikolina Dzida, handing her counts within the first and second rounds en path to taking a transparent unanimous resolution.